1. Idris Kandhlawi was a Pakistani Sunni scholar during the mid-twentieth century, widely recognized for his contributions to various fields of Islamic studies, including hadith, Quranic studies, Islamic jurisprudence, Prophetic biography, and theology.
Idris Kandhlawi studied in Thana Bhawan under Ashraf Ali Thanwi.
Idris Kandhlawi studied hadith, first at Mazahir Uloom under Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri, and later at Darul Uloom Deoband under Anwar Shah Kashmiri.
Idris Kandhlawi started his professional career at Madrasa Aminia and later went to Darul Uloom Deoband.
Idris Kandhlawi later assumed the roles of Sheikh al-Tafsir at Darul Uloom Deoband and Sheikh al-Hadith wa al-Tafsir at Jamia Ashrafia.
Idris Kandhlawi actively engaged in politics and worked in the Pakistan Movement as one of the top members of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam.
Idris Kandhlawi wrote over a hundred works, including an eight-volume Quran commentary called Maarif al-Quran, which aimed to counter the influence of Western-oriented exegesis trends in South Asia.
Idris Kandhlawi wrote a biography in Urdu of Muhammad, called Seerat-e Mustafa.
Idris Kandhlawi wrote many works to refute Christianity and Qadianism.
Idris Kandhlawi adhered to the Hanafi school of fiqh and his tariqah in Sufism was the Chishtiyah Sabiriyah, which incorporates several orders, including the Naqshbandiyah Mujaddidiyah.
Idris Kandhlawi was born in Bhopal and so he was "al-Bawfali".
When Idris Kandhlawi was a few years old, Ismail resigned from his post and began teaching hadith in the Jami Masjid in Kandhla.
Thereafter, Idris Kandhlawi completed dawrah of hadith a second time at Darul Uloom Deoband, with scholars including Allamah Anwar Shah Kashmiri, Allamah Shabbir Ahmad Usmani, Mufti Azizur Rahman Usmani, Maulana Muhammad Ahmad Nanautawi, Maulana Habibur Rahman Usmani, and Sayyid Asghar Husain Deobandi.
Idris Kandhlawi spent the majority of his life in the service of institutions of Islamic learning.
Idris Kandhlawi was never assigned the elementary books; instead, the books initially assigned to him were Hidayah awwalin in Hanafi fiqh and Maqamat-i Hariri in Arabic literature.
Idris Kandhlawi remained with the Darul Uloom for nine years.
Idris Kandhlawi left Deoband, taking up a post in Hyderabad State, where he remained for approximately nine years.
Idris Kandhlawi had access to the Asafiyah Library, where he made use of books including a rare manuscript of at-Turbashti's sharh of Masabih as-Sunnah, said to be the only such manuscript in India at the time.
Idris Kandhlawi accepted, although the salary was less than half of what he was receiving in Hyderabad.
Idris Kandhlawi decided to leave India in 1949, due to what he perceived as the worsening of conditions for Islam and Muslims in the country.
Idris Kandhlawi received invitations from other institutions in India, which he refused.
Idris Kandhlawi was invited to take the post of Shaykh al-Hadith at Darul Uloom Hathazari in Chittagong, East Pakistan.
Idris Kandhlawi remained with the Jamia until the end of his life.